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INS 511: SEMINAR ON ENVIRONMENT AND DEVELOPMENT
Water and Poverty
Reference List

I. Making the Connection – Water and Poverty

A. Basic Statements

  1. World Resources Institute, World Resources 2000/2001. (Oxford, 2000), Ch. 1-3.
  2. World Bank, World Development Report 2000/2001: Attacking Poverty. (Oxford, 2001), Ch.1-3

B. Background

  1. Norman Myers, ed., GAIA: Atlas of Planetary Management. (Doubleday-Anchor, 1984), esp pp. 46-9, 69-99, 108-111, 134-7.
  2. J.E. Lovelock, GAIA: A New Look at Life on Earth. (Oxford, 1979), ch. 1,2,6.
  3. P. Matthiessen, Killing Mister Watson (1990), Lost Man’s River (1997).
  4. L. Glaros and D. Sphar, Canoeing and Kayaking Guide to the Streams of Florida, vol. II: Central and South Peninsula (Menasha Ridge Press, 1987).
  5. E. Abbey, Desert Soltaire (Ballentine, 1968), “Water,” pp. 129-146.
  6. A. Vilesisis, Discovering the Unknown Landscape: A History of America’s Wetlands. (Island Press, 1997).
  7. National Geographic, Water: The Power, Promise, and Turmoil of North America’s Fresh Water (Special Ed.), Nov. 1993.
  8. P. Gleick, The World’s Water. (Island Press, 1998).
  9. Latin American and Caribbean Commission on Development and Environment, “Our Own Agenda: Interrelationship Between Environment, Development and Poverty.” Ch. 7 in Uner Kirdar, ed., Change: Threat or Opportunity for Human Progress? , Vol. V in Ecological change: Environment, Development and Poverty Linkages. (United Nations, New York, 1992), pp. 108-121.

C. Data Sources

  1. “Terra Viva! World Resources” CD (World Resource Institute). For student copies, tel: (202) 729-7702. e-mail: valeriev@wri.org.
  2. “Worldwatch CD-ROM” (Worldwatch Institute). Data from State of the World 2001 and Vital Signs 2001.

II. Economic Approaches

B. Value

  1. H. E. Daly & K.N. Townsend, Valuing the Earth: Economics, Ecology, Ethics (MIT, 1993), Ch. 1,2,6.
  2. R. Malnes, Valuing the Environment (Manchester UP, 1995).
  3. J. Foster, ed., Valuing Nature: Economics, Ethics & Environment (Routledge, 1997)

C. Basic Models of Development

  1. W. A. Lewis, “Economic Development with Unlimited Supplies of Labor,” Manachester School 22 (1954): 139-191.
  2. P. Baran, Political Economy of Growth. (Monthly Review, 1957).

D. Measuring Poverty and Inequality in Latin America

  1. R. Weisskoff, “Forty Years of Inequality Measuring in Latin America.” Mimeo.
  2. R. Weisskoff, “Poverty Rates in Latin America, 1980-2000.” Mimeo.
  3. ECLAC, The Equity Gap (Santiago, 1997).
  4. Samuel Morely, The Income Distribution Problem in Latin America and the Caribbean. (ECLAC, Santiago, Chile, 2001).
  5. S. Chen and M. Ravallion,”How Did the World’s Poorest Fare in the 1990s?” Review of Income and Wealth 47, 3 (Sept. 2001), pp. 283-300.

E. Measuring Economic Growth and Structure

1. Input-Output Models
a. W. Leontief, Input-Output Economics (Oxford, 1986), Ch. 8, “Structure of Development”; Ch 11. “Environmental Repercussions.”
b. F. Duchin and G. Lange, Future of the Environment. (Oxford, 1994).
c. R. Weisskoff, “Missing Pieces in Ecosystem Restoration: The Case of the Florida Everglades.” Econ. Syst. Research 12, 3 (Sept. 2000) pp. 271-302.
2. Regional and Urban Growth Models
a. G. Treyz, Regional Reconomic Modeling: Forecasting and Policy (Kluwer, 1993), ch. 2,3.
b. Minn. IMPLAN Group, Impact Analysis for Planning Manual. (Stillwater, Min, 2000).
c. R. Weisskoff, “A Tale of Two Models: REMI and IMPLAN on the Everglades Restoration.” Proceedings of the First World Conference of Ecosystem Health (forthcoming).

F. Economic Controversies

  1. Consumption and Economic Welfare
    a. F. Ackerman, et.al., eds. Human Well-Being and Economic Goals (Island, 1997).
    b. N.R. Goodwin, ed., The Consumer Society (Island, 1997).
    c. F. Duchin, Structural Economics: Measuring Change in Technology, Lifestyles, and the Environment. (Island, 1998).
    d. M. Redclift, Wasted: Counting the Costs of Global Consumption (Earthscan, 1996).
  2. Growth for What?
    a. R.U. Ayes, Turning Point: The End of the Growth Paradigm (Earthscan, 1998), ch. 8, 9, 13.
    b. D.E. Booth, The Environmental consequences of Growth: Steady-State Economics as an Alternative to Ecological Decline. (Routledge, 1998), Ch. 8.
    c. M. Perelman, The Pathology of the U.S. Economy. (St. Martins, 1993), Ch. 7.
    d. H. Henderson, Paradigms in Progress: Life Beyond Economics. (Knowledge Systems, 1991). Ch. 7, “Greening the Economy and Recycling Economics.”
  3. Regenerating Poverty
    a. H. Bernstein, eds., The Food Question: Profits vs. People. (Monthly Review, 1990). Ch. 1.
    b. K. Lissakers, Banks, Borrowers, and the Establishment:A Revisionist Account of the International Debt Crisis. (Basic Books, 1991), Ch. 1, 2, 10.
  4. Environmental vs. Ecological Economics
    a. R. Dorfman & N.S. Dorfman, eds., Economics of the Environment (Norton, 1993), Ch. 18.
    b. R.A. Young & R.H. Haveman, “Economics of Water Resources: A Survey,” in A.V. Kneese and J.L. Sweeney, Handbook of Natural Resource and Energy Economics, vol II (north-Holland, 1993).
    c. J. Dixon, et. Al., Economic Análisis of Envirohmental Impacts. (Earthscan, 1986), Cases, Part II.
    d. R. Costanza, et. al., Getting Down to Earth: Practical applications of Ecological Economics. (Island Press, 1996). Ch 1, 7, 14, 22, 23.
  5. Environment & Development
    a. N. Heernik, A. Mulatu, and E. Bulte, “Income Inequality and the Environmental Aggregation Bias in the Envirohmental Kuznets Curves,” Ecological Economics (Sept. 2001), pp. 359-67.
    b. Clem Tisdell, “Globalisation and Sustainability: Environmental Kuznets Curve and the WTO.” Ecological Economics 39, 2 (Nov. 2001), pp. 185-196.
    c. M. Rogers, “Poverty and Degradation,” Ch., 5, in T. M.Swanson, TheEconomics of Environmental Degradation: Tragedy for the Commons? (Edward Elgar, 1996), pp. 109-27.
    d. Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific (ESCAP), Populationa and Environment Dynamics, Poverty and Quality of Life in Countries of the ESCAP Region (United Nations, New York, 1997).
  6. The Management Approach
    a. M. Newson, Land, Water, and Development: sustainable Management of river Basin Systems (Routledge, 1992), ch. 5, “River Basins and Development,” pp. 151-213.
    b. A. E. Morgan, Dams and Other Disters: A Century of the Army corps of Engineers in Civil Works. (Porter Sargent, Boston, 1971).
    c. S.S. Light, et. al., “the Everglades: Evolution of Management in a Turbulent Ecosystem,” ch. 3, in L. H. Gunderson, C.S. Holling, & S.S. Light, eds., Barriers and Bridges to the Renewal of Ecosystems and Institutions. (Columbia, 1955), pp. 103-168.
    d. F. P. Bosselman, et. al., Managing rourism Browth. (Island Press, 1999).
    e. T. Whelan, ed., Nature Tourism: Managing for the Environment. (Island, 1991).
  7. “Odum-style” Environmental Modeling
    a. H.T. Odum, E.C. Odum and M.T. Brown, Environment and Society in Florida. (Lewis, 1997), ch. 3.
    b. C.A.S. Hall, ed. Maximum Power: The Ideas and Applications of H. T. Odum. (Colorado UP, 1995), esp. Ch. 16-20, “H.T. Odum and Economics.”

III. Technology

A. Water: General

    1. Hammer, M.J., and Hammer, M.J., Jr., 2001. Water and Wastewater Technology,
      4rth Edition. Prentice Hall Publishing, Upper Saddle River, New Jersey.
    2. 2. Nathanson, J.A., 1997. Basic Environmental Technology, 2nd Edition.
      Prentic Hall Publishing, Upper Saddle River, New Jersey.

B. Water: Caribbean

    1. World Health Organization, Unicef, and Water Supply & Sanitation
      Collaborative Council, 2000. Global Water Supply and Sanitation Assessment
      Report. Report available on the internet at
      http://www.who.int/water_sanitation_health/Globassessment/GlasspdfTOC.htm
    2. United Nations Environmental Programme, Caribbean Regional Co-ordinating
      Unit, 1998. Appropriate Technology for Sewage Pollution Control in the
      Wider Caribbean Region. CEP Technical Report Number 40. Report available
      on the internet at
      http://www.cep.unep.org/pubs/techreports/techreports.html
    3. United Nations Environmental Programme, Caribbean Regional Co-ordinating
      Unit, 1994. Regional Overview of Land-Based Sources of Pollution in the
      Wider Caribbean Region. CEP Technical Report Number 33. Report available
      on the internet at
      http://www.cep.unep.org/pubs/techreports/techreports.html.

C. Water – Latin America and the Caribbean

  1. ECLAC, The Water Resources of Latin America and the Caribbean – planning, hazards and Pollution (ECLAC, Santiago, Chile, 1990). No. 77 in Series: Estudios e Informes de la CEPAL.
  2. Axel Dourojeanni R., Water Management at the River Basin Level: Challenges in Latin America. Natural Resources and Infrastructure Division, (ECLAC, Santiago, 2001). No. 29 in Serie Recursos Naturales e Infraestructura.
  3. International Environmental Technology Center, Source Book of Alternative Technologies for Freshwater Augmentation in Latin America and the Caribbean. (United Nations Environment Programme, Osaka, Japan, 1998), Tech. Public. Series [8c]